Interest check: Megadungeon keeper


Recruitment

Shadow Lodge

I am fairly sure that everyone here had their fair share of being an adventurer and crawling through dungeons stopping the plans of whoever dwells in it, and for once I would like to reverse that.
Not even in the simple "evil campaign" way as that is still adventurers following a quest someone gave them.

What I would like to run is a game where you are the villain. The people who makes the nefarious plot and who other people pay adventurers to get rid of.

I would like to have a villain, humanoid or otherwise, and a few trusted minions as players and for once have them run the game. Instead of having a plot in place of what is happening to the world and have the players react to it I would like the players to be what is happening and have the rest of the world react to it.

This time you are the BBEG at the end of the AP, you will need to build and secure your secret lair from where you plot against the world, gain the service of minions to carry on your will and make sure that those pesky adventurers who want to stop you meet an untimely death.

Now, recruitment will be kinda unusual as in I will have to choose one BBEG and a few henchmen which likely require a separate bbeg recruitment drive and once defined it a minion recruitment drive as the big bad gets defined.

But first of all I would like to see how many people would be interested in playing such a game.


I'm definitely interested. I'd love to play a minion character!


I would be glad to be an EVIL MINION in service to a great and powerful dark master!

However, it'll depend on how often we need to post. I'd actually like more details on how playing a minion would work, too: would we be essentially an evil party that counters adventurers, or would each minion player be their own part of the dungeon with their own lesser minions they're in control of? Etc.


I would for sure.


Could we play as monsters? I know I'd never pass up a chance to play a dragon.


That sounds fun. I've always wanted to be the evil wizard enslaving extraplanar creatures...

Shadow Lodge

To answer a few question:

How being a minion would work highly depends on their master. I can see it having a mix of functioning like a party in some tasks and be given free reign over a specific aspect or a region of the lair in some other.

Pretty much it depends mainly on the "quest giver" that in this case is not me but rather another player.

As for whether you can play monsters, well.. of course.
While I would be fine accepting a party of evil humans, this campaign is clearly geared towards letting you play a lot of monstrous characters.

So dragons, Evil Wizards, or even a nascent demon lord are all viable options.
I won't really even limit your choice when it comes to Level/CR of the BBEG, the only difference is that if the threat is a evil commoner that manage a slave ring you will probably arouse the ire of a local baron and the friends of the kidnapped, while if you are a Demonlord awakening in the material plan you will probably attract as soon as made manifest the hostility of several nations, churches and probably even celestial planes and rival Demonlords.

Really this is the kind of game where you go wild with your imagination. As said before, you are not the ones reacting to what happen to the world but what you make happen is something the world will react to.

Also... while in a lack of description I assume this to be the default of every campaign...
We are playing with Pathfinder rules and in Golarion (although where in Golarion is really your pick)


Ooohhh... Yes please. I've been wanting to try an evil overlord for a while. Will there be the chance to increase our power through complicated and needlessly dramatic rituals that must happen during rare conditions?


Yes, please.

I've always liked the idea of a game where the player are able to build up and defend a base, hire minions, and slowly pursue significant goals.

I've also always enjoyed the idea of playing in an evil campaign.

This sounds like the perfect mix of these types of games.

It's worth noting that I've never actually played in a Play By Post game on paizo (or elsewhere). This topic just caught my eye from the topic list, and I had to poke my head in because it's just that good of an idea.

Shadow Lodge

Increasing your power is certainly something that can and will happen, obviously it also depends on the starting point. The more powerful you decide to start as the more difficult it will be to increase your already awesome power.

But still... Sky is the limit. You are literally trying to become one of those doomsday monstrosities that failed AP are made of.


Well, I will eagerly await what the nature of the terrible lord of this dungeon will be so I can start hashing out concepts.

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I'm totally in for this.

@Scarletrose, if you're up for it, I'd love to play as one of the BBEG's minions using a magus archetype that I wrote up for Fat Goblin Games, the Battlefield Defiler

Basically, it's a Magus that focuses on necromancy and can create undead mid-combat using coup-de-grace attacks and later on just critical hits.

Interested?? :)

Shadow Lodge

Well, right now is just an interest check but I will likely have a BBEG recruitment first and then have recruitment for the minions as I feel those are kinda dependent on the BBEG and their goals.

As far as I am personally concerned I wouldn't ban anything... except maybe for psions since I never took the time (or the books) to learn their rules.


I suppose it's worth mentioning, if I were to play, I have more interest in being a minion than a BBEG.

The concept I have is that of a dungeon architect, who sort of runs the day-to-day operations, sets up (and resets) traps, recruits monsters, and makes sure everything is running according to budget. Something of an HR/Accounting/General Advisor position!

If I were a BBEG, I'd probably be more interested in the nitty gritty of dungeon building than actually being an evil overlord, so probably better to let someone else take that role : )


I could pull off an epic BBEG, in my opinion, but a minion would also be fun. My default would be a mastermind mind-controller, but I know I can do better. Besides, it would be awesome to play as a dragon.


I just want to play an evil BSF :b "You got it, Boss"

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Yep, I could dig having minions and hatching plots.


I'd be interested in either the BBEG or being his extra-planar cannon-fodder "recruiter"
Or if the BBEG is a demon, maybe I could be the wizard that foolishly called him and is now slightly enslaved xD


This sounds fantastic.

Time to start scheming up nefarious plots and a suitable evil to set the plan in motion.

Evil wizards are always good, but dragons and demons are great too. Or evil wizard dragon demons. Or maybe a mi-go...

For a minion recruitment, I might go with something a bit different, like a fallen angel or something, depends on power level of course.


Interesting. I think I could have fun putting together deathtraps for our heroes/home invaders. That's probably a minion rather than a BBEG.


Minion! I will definitely be putting together a minion for this!

I think your interest check has proven positive!


Any idea what the expected tone will be?

So far, I have an idea for an evil mastermind goblin determined to wipe the plague of written words from the face of Golarion. Burning libraries, exploding arcane academies, that sort of thing. Possibly a magical ritual that causes a spreading curse that cause written words to be destroyed whenever they are read by someone with the curse.

If we want something a bit more serious, I'm still brainstorming delightfully convoluted evil plans that would be fun to pursue, and the nature of which would probably drive the character concept for the villain.

Shadow Lodge

Honestly I thought about a serious tone but... If the idea is good and hilarious enough... why not have something less serious?

Will probably open the official recruitment later today.


Cool! Don't forget the Principles for Evil Overlords, everyone!

Shadow Lodge

the recruitment topic is open

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